Oramic Waves event celebrates experimental music community

Oramic Waves presented by Oram Awards x Tŷ Cerdd x Llais Festival

We were proud to collaborate with the 2026 Oram Awards across this year’s Llais Festival programme and at grassroots venue Paradise Garden in October.

The Oram Awards supports women and gender-diverse artists exploring the expansive tides of sound and experimental music to celebrate the unusual, the unique, and the unfiltered. This year's selected winners were celebrated as part of Oramic Waves, a weekend of workshops and live performances open to the public across three days.​

Natalie Roe and Eady Crawford led a lively session exploring sample packs, where participants collaboratively built a bank of noises and short clips of music created with voice and electronic instruments.

At Paradise Garden in Roath, Oram Award winners Outsider (Jodi Newham) and Eye Measure (Ray Morrisson) performed alongside Wales-based artist Warm Leveret with a night of DJ sets traversing the worlds of queer club music and deep eclecticism; weird, dark, high energy computer music with live coding; and unpolished harp, soft noise and meditative sound worlds.

We rounded off the weekend with a social celebrating Wales’ experimental music community, with expansive performances by Cardiff-based artist Pam Rose-Cott and Oram Award winner Rachel Devorah Rome (N Ireland) improvising collaboratively for the first time. Closing the festival, this year’s Welsh Oram Awards winner May Swoon (Neo Ukandu) performed an innovative electronic set blending beats, noise, glitch, DIY synths and lyrical experiments.